UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

Well done to all our children for achieving their Head Teacher Award this week. We are all very proud of you. Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

Article of the Week Safer Internet Day

Hello, Safer Internet Day is marked each year on 7 February and promotes safe, responsible and positive use of the internet. The activities in this pack explore issues around online life through the lens of three articles: Article 19, the right to protection from harm, Article 17, the right to reliable information and Article 34, protection from exploitation. With so many stories in the media about the impact of online influencers we would advise you to consider how you can create a safe space and what safeguarding procedures should be in place before opening up some of this week’s discussion points, particularly within the secondary activities. If you would like to take this strand further we would recommend the Votes For Schools Safer Internet Day vote, Should we blame influencers for online harms?

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UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

Fabulous efforts by all our children who have worked very hard and achieved their Head Teacher Award. Well done to everyone.

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

Well done to all our children who have achieved their next level on Lexia.

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all.

UNCRC Article 29 – goals of education

Well done to all our children who accessed their TT Rockstars this week and achieved their certificates.

Care Day, the world’s biggest celebration of children and young people with care experience, is happening on 18th February 2023 in County Durham.

Durham’s CICC and Investing in Children are inviting people to join us to celebrate the positive experiences and contributions of children and young people in care or with care experience.

It will be a chance to take part in some of the fantastic activities we have planned throughout the day, we want the people of Co Durham to listen to children and young people themselves, look beyond the surface, and to see that every care-experienced child and young person is an individual with their own unique story, ambitions, and dreams for the future.

Please sign up via the Eventbrite link in the attached flyer and come along and spend some time with some fantastic people and share ideas to make things even better for Co Durham’s care community.

Care Day 2023 Poster

Today our safeguarding assembly was focusing on Dangers around the home. We looked closely at the kitchen and discussed the dangers that we could be aware of. In class groups, the children then talked about  what to do if they stop something unsafe in the home.

For more information on what was covered check out the powerpoint below:

DANGERS AT HOME

 

A message from Durham University As part of our community outreach and ambition to engage children in sport and physical activity, we are launching our new Junior Sports Clubs programme next week, week commencing 16.1.23.

Also, we have February half term Holiday Camps available to book onto.

sports clubs

Professor Brainstorm

To help launch our topics this half term we had a visit from Professor Brainstorm. He taught us lots of new and interesting things about Science. We are well and truly convinced that Science is FUN!

Class 1

Class 1 explored the magic of Science and they were AMAZED by all of the things Professor Brainstorm showed and explained to us. We learned how to make a laughing chicken from noise vibrations, how to create a circuit and light up Zog’s nose, how Liquid can turn to a gas that is really cold (liquid nitrogen) and pop the lid off a pringles tube before evaporating and how to make a squid float and sink inside of  a plastic bottle!

Class 2 & 3

Today we had lots of fun learning all about fantastic forces with Professor Brainstorm. We enjoyed spinning water upside down as well as shooting potato out of a tube! Unfortunately, we couldn’t defy gravity … but we did try!

Class 4

Professor Brainstorm wowed us with some fantastic science experiments, made from equipment we could use at home or school! We investigated lots of ways to make sound and light and even discussed what instruments make higher or lower pitched sounds – linking to our Cornerstones topic of ‘I Am Warrior’, we even thought of instruments the Romans would’ve used! Everyone had so much fun.

Class 5

UNCRC Article 28 – right to education

A fabulous afternoon we have all had when we welcomed Professor Brainstorm into school and participated in a science workshop. We had fun watching electrical explosions, freezing flowers with liquid nitrogen and the famous ‘spud gun’!

Rights Respecting Gold ethos demonstrated by all our children; well done everyone.